Organise the Habitation Screen and App Library on your iPhone

With iOS 14 and after, there are new ways to find and organise the apps on your iPhone – then you encounter what you want, where you lot desire. Find out how to use the App Library and organise your Abode Screen.

Use the App Library to find your apps

From your Home Screen, swipe left until you lot see the App Library. Your apps are sorted into categories automatically. For example, your social media apps may be sorted into a Social category. The apps that you utilize most often will be reordered automatically based on usage. When you install new apps, they'll be added to your App Library, only you tin change where new apps are downloaded to.

iPhone showing the App Library screen.

Search for an app in the App Library

  1. Get to the App Library.
  2. Tap the search field, and then enter the app that you're looking for.
  3. Tap the app to open information technology.

Delete an app from the App Library

  1. Go to the App Library and tap the search field to open the list.
  2. Bear upon and concur the app icon, then tap Delete AppBin icon.
  3. Tap Delete again to ostend.

If you can't delete an app that's not made by Apple, disable parental controls, then attempt deleting the app again.

Move apps to the App Library

  1. Touch and agree the app.
  2. Tap Remove App.
  3. Tap Remove from Dwelling house Screen.

Notice, hide and remove pages on your Home Screen

With iOS 14 and after, you can easily hibernate pages to streamline how your Home Screen looks and add them back whenever yous want. Here's how:

iPhone showing how to hide a page on Home Screen.

  1. Touch and hold an empty surface area on your Home Screen.
  2. Tap the dots nigh the bottom of your screen.
  3. Tap the circle under the page that you want to hide.
  4. Tap Done.

To unhide a page, repeat the steps above. So utilise the App Library to find apps that are subconscious on dissimilar pages speedily.

To remove pages from your Home Screen:

  1. Touch on and concur an empty surface area on your Home Screen.
  2. Tap the dots near the bottom of your screen.
  3. Tap the circle under the page that you want to hide.
  4. Tap the Remove button, and then tap Remove.

When you lot remove a page from your Home Screen, the apps will still appear in the App Library.

Reorder pages on your Dwelling house Screen

With iOS xv and iPadOS 15, you tin can move pages on your Dwelling house Screen. Here's how:

iPhone showing how to move pages on the Home Screen

  1. Impact and agree an empty area on your Home Screen.
  2. Tap the dots near the bottom of your screen.
  3. Drag a folio to reorder information technology.
  4. Tap Done.

iPhone showing where to have apps download

Change where new apps are downloaded to

To modify where new apps become downloaded on your iPhone, or to show or hide the notifications that y'all see in the App Library:

  1. Go to Settings > Abode Screen.
  2. Select an option such as Add together to Home Screen or App Library But.

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